Becoming Retirees

And in a manner of inchoate, but not replete, 

acceptance we find the need to reassess an 

ingenuously shared impression - so the visit 

today blew a host of prejudice away; they’re 

in its round frankly principled less an enemy 

and more adversary of similar bullshit we’ve 

gotten used to as justification for their being; 

& its the untruth we’d treasonously spread 

So there were we - prepared for three hours 

of banal interrogation and she took wind out 

of our sails - no worries, its all there, and I’ll 

send it on immediately - & we’re on our way 

utterly bemused because it all made sense -  

scything angst meant becoming retirees 

© 4 November 2015, I. D. Carswell